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Much wisdom comes out of mouths of babes
Lynda Hollenbeck
Recently, as I was fishing around in a dresser drawer, I came across an old watch that had belonged to my daughter a lot of years ago. This was a Cinderella souvenir timepiece and featured the beautiful Disney character under the crystal.
Judging from the number of Cinderella wannabes I saw recently at Downtown Benton's Spook City, it appears that Cinderella still is a popular literary/movie heroine for little girls.
I find that somewhat refreshing. With all the ugly stuff out there, it's comforting to know that youngsters still believe in Cinderellas and pretty dresses and second chances.
Finding the childlike trinket triggered nice memories of those earlier years when my late spouse and I were raising the children. Long before his passing, I said several times that I would love to have been able to have gone back and done it all again, even the times when life wasn't easy.
When your children are young and you're intertwined in so many things, it really is the best of times though occasionally it might seem like the worst of times.
I recall another innocent memory that focused on a watch. This one involved my then-5-year-old son.
Allen had an intense fascination with watches and clocks. I wouldn't have been surprised if he hadn't gotten into watch/clock repair, but he chose another route.
(I did have a cousin who could take clocks apart, then put them back together and they would work. My kids didn't get the trait.)
I don't think I'll ever forget the day Allen called me at work to tell me that his babysitter had loaned him a watch to wear while he was at her home. He couldn't have been more thrilled. He then asked me what time my watch had and I, of course, told him.
His time was slightly different. But he then remarked, with complete sincerity, "My watch probably runs faster than yours. Yours is a Timex and mine is a Wrist."
I stifled a laugh.
It was at that point I realized I never had used the term "wrist watch" in his presence. I habitually refer to my timepiece as simply my watch. So when the sitter called the instrument a wrist watch, he naturally assumed that must be its brand name.
I thought about trying to explain a few things to him until I shared the incident with a friend. I changed my mind upon hearing his remark: "When you talk to him, be sure to tell him I have a Pocket watch. Pocket, of course, would be spelled with a capital P, just like Wrist must call for a capital W. And desk clock must get a big D ... "
Nothing like stirring the confusion pot a little more ... but kids are great for bringing lightness to the sometimes heavy moments of life.
You really never know what a youngster might say at any given moment. Before they start talking, you work with them and coax them to say certain words and then later on they'll blurt out something that makes you want to take cover.
My daughter, now a seasoned elementary teacher, showed signs early on that she would be finding the teaching chair in the classroom. I just wasn't smart enough to pick up on the signals.
She was a tiny thing with a huge voice. No one ever had to tell her to speak up. Whispering wasn't an option and it wasn't possible to say "oh, she's trying to say (something else)" because she always enunciated perfectly.
Frequently, this wasn't a blessing.
During a visit to a worship service at a relative's church, she began rattling papers while scribbling all over the service bulletin. She wasn't saying anything, but she was getting louder by the minute, so I admonished her to be quiet.
She looked at me with disgust and responded, in a tone that could be heard at the back of the classroom (or the large sanctuary as it happened to be), "I'M JUST WRITING IN THE SAND."
The minister had been preaching on a scriptural passage in which he had said several times "and Jesus was writing in the sand ... "
Karen probably could have given a better account of the sermon than most adults in the congregation.
A couple of years later on as a student at the Riggs studio in Benton, she participated in a gymnastics meet. I was in the audience along with other parents and friends and suddenly was shocked to see Karen rearranging the performing order as the girls were standing on the floor, ready to compete. Taking them by the arm, she physically placed them in different spots in the formation.
It seems that someone had gotten out of the assigned order and this teacher-in-waiting had to have a proper line before she was willing to perform.
She didn't publicly announce when it was time to start, but that could have been because she had forgotten to check her Wrist Watch.
Kids. You gotta love 'em.
Lynda Hollenbeck is senior editor of The Saline Courier.


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Popping pain killers may not be the answer, not if you can isolate and alter the gene which regulates chronic pain. Via Reuters:
British scientists have identified a gene responsible for regulating chronic pain, called HCN2, and say their discovery should help drug researchers in their search for more effective, targeted pain-killing medicines.
"Our research lays the groundwork for the development of new drugs to treat chronic pain by blocking HCN2."
Scientists from Cambridge University said that if drugs could be designed to block the protein produced by the gene, they could treat a type of pain known as neuropathic pain, which is linked to nerve damage and often very difficult to control with currently available drugs.
"Individuals suffering from neuropathic pain often have little or no respite because of the lack of effective medications," said Peter McNaughton of Cambridge's pharmacology department, who led the study.
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jlbower79 wrote:the meadow scenes... so if you don't want to see that part don't watch it after Rob says "SHE LOVES ME" in this SUPER FUNNY way... stop watching there.... it's a big spoiler. so stop it around 230! it's so funny rob says "im trying to scare her away... but SHE LOVES ME" in this high pinch voice.. it's so funny
I stopped watching RIGHT after that part Jamie! I was feeling spoiled! But the way that he said "She Loves Me!" was soooooooo adorable I nearly died! What I wouldn't give to hang out with him for just a day, he is so cute and endearing! AND HOT! Did I mention he's HOT!??!? I also liked when Edward was yanking Bella around by the arm, more bossy, dominating, sexiness! A prrrrow! (that's my Edward/Rob purr, he makes me purr )


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Those crazy kids at Finnish label CTRL just sent out their latest lookbook for SS12 and the tomboy in me thinks it's pretty damn awesome. The Animal Chin Collection came announced with a description in engrish, and I had to nod my head when they boldly proclaimed it their "strongest collection to date." Yep, sure is! The boyish cuts and micro-prints (I need those yellow cheetah pants) have done did it for me. Check out the full mens and girls lookbooks here.
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6 comments:
- Julian said...
Oooohh my god. I would wear all of these in a heartbeat.
- October 21, 2011 at 9:04 AM
- Linda Lu said...
The tomboy in me thinks that I need to start shopping from CTRL too.
- October 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM
- Elegantly Wasted said...
I've wasted three hours on tumblr's tonight and all I concluded was that I wanted to dress more like a boy. I need that blue & green checkered shirt to complete the dream!
- October 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM
- blue roses said...
the clothes, obviously, are totally rad, but i love the backdrop for the editorial as well, totally richard serra-esque.
- October 27, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Magnet said...
That's a really nice collection, love some of the pieces.
- October 29, 2011 at 9:59 AM
- MOTHEATENRAGS said...
All for Sizzla t-shirt!
- November 20, 2011 at 6:23 AM
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg's weekly "news"letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Dear Reader (Including the Dingo who cares not about your petty beauty contests),
Since most of this "news"letter is going to vex friends, let's start with something that all right-thinking people can agree upon: If Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to continue being considered an intellectual, he should really stop talking (or at least stop tweeting).
Just before I started to pound out this dyspeptic cri de coeur of consternation, I saw this amuse-bouche of vapidity:
Almost all armed conflict in the history of the world came about because opposing sides believed different things to be true.— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 16, 2017
Now, in a reductionist kind of way, this is obviously true. When two people, two tribes, or two nations fight, they tend to have profound disagreements about who should win.
But the idea that people almost always go to war because they believe different things to be true is really quite ridiculous. Did Caesar, Alexander the Great, or Genghis Kahn have a giant war map in front of them demarking which nations agreed with them and which didn't? "Oh, I would dearly love to conquer Gaul, will someone find out if they disagree with us on something?"
What, pray tell, do Crips and Bloods really disagree on? (Note: I have no idea if they still exist, feel free to add any other gangs: Sharks and Jets, Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys, the Yancy Street Gang and Ben Grimm, whatever.) The prime mover of their disagreements isn't ideas but power, status, and, probably, the money that flows from them. They might invent grander arguments to defend their bellicosity, but those arguments are downstream of those primary motivations. Hitler believed some awful things, but he didn't invade France because of his disagreements with the French. He invaded France because he wanted to rule it. The disagreements were secondary. David Hume said, "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." I don't fully subscribe to this view, but I don't think it's entirely wrong either.
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Now Tyson is almost surely making what he believes to be a clever point about religion. And it is certainly true that there have been religious wars, some of them quite sincere. And some of them were populist justifications for wars of another motivation, proving yet again that scientific expertise doesn't automatically transfer to other realms of study. What he seems to want to suggest, however, is that if everyone agrees on the majestic sovereignty of science, there will be no more conflict. His global empire of "Rationalia" will usher in an era of eternal peace.
Not only is that incredibly, mind-bogglingly, and incandescently absurd and extremely creepy and dangerous. It is also — wait for it — profoundly unscientific.
Canine Flatulence as Far as the Eye Can See (or Smell)
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote in this space:
I'm reminded of a scene from Don Quixote: A man walks into the center of town and gathers a crowd for the show he's about to put on. The man picks up a dog and inserts a tube into its ass. The man then begins to inflate the canine like a balloon. The crowd watches, fascinated. The dog grows larger and rounder. Eventually, the man pulls the tube out and the air escapes loudly from the poor pooch's rectum as it runs away.
The performer turns to the crowd and asks something like: "You think it's easy to inflate a dog with a tube?"
That guy may be the best dog-inflator in the world. He may have tapped into something real — the need to see extreme reverse dog farting — but that doesn't mean we should make him president.
That scene came to mind Thursday as I watched the reaction to President Trump's press conference. My friend Mollie Hemingway captured a very widespread sentiment out there:
.@MZHemingway: "I would watch a @realDonaldTrump press conference at any time of any day. It's just so entertaining." #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/IHhH6vZcnA— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2017
And I agree with her: It certainly was entertaining in parts. In other parts, not so much. But the problem is that entertainment value is one of the lowest standards one can hold a president to. It's entertaining, apparently, to see a man stick a tube up a dog's butt, but that doesn't make it art. And it may be entertaining to watch a president of the United States spill out his id on national television like a torn net full of mackerel on a dock. But if that's a standard for how to judge a presidential press conference, why didn't we elect Charlie Sheen?
Does anyone seriously believe that Trump persuaded significant numbers of people who didn't already love him?
I keep hearing from conservative pundits that a lot of people out in the "real world" thought this press conference was awesome. I'm sure this is true. But I wonder how many conservative pundits realize that the people who thought it was awesome are already in Trump's amen corner (and that these are precisely the folks that conservative pundits are most likely to hear from — and depend on?). Does anyone seriously believe that Trump persuaded significant numbers of people who didn't already love him?
I've written a bunch about the MacGuffinization of American politics in recent years. Ace of Spades coined the term to describe how the media covered Barack Obama. They cast him as the hero of a drama and the only goal was to see how he overcame problems. It didn't matter if he was wrong on policy — including the Constitution — what mattered was whether he emerged victorious. "In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants," Ace explained. "Usually the villain wants it too, and their conflict over who will end up with The MacGuffin forms the basic spine of the story." Further on, Ace writes:
Watching Chris Matthews interview Obama, I was struck by just how uninterested in policy questions Matthews (and his panel) were, and how almost every question seemed to be, at heart, about Obama's emotional response to difficulties — not about policy itself, but about Obama's Hero's Journey in navigating the plot of President Barack Obama: The Movie. As with a MacGuffin in the movie, only the Hero's emotional response to the MacGuffin matters.
It was the MacGuffin dynamic that first made me realize that Trump could defeat Hillary Clinton.
Now the MacGuffin thing is just a useful metaphor or analogy. But the dynamic it captures goes to the very core of humanity. While working on my book, I've come to believe more than ever that man is a story-telling animal and that stories are what give us meaning, direction, and passion. Hume's point about reason being a slave to passion should be more properly understood as "reason is a slave to narrative." But we can talk more about that later.
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The relevant point here is that Trump was right when he said that he didn't divide America, it was divided when he showed up. What concerns me is that vast numbers of conservatives who lamented the MacGuffinized presidency and media of the Obama era have grabbed with both hands the MacGuffinized presidency of Donald Trump.
It is entirely true that the press served as an eager participant in the story of Obama. It is also entirely true that much of the mainstream media is playing the reverse role in the story of Trump's presidency. And, it's also the case that much of the conservative media is now playing the role they once decried in the MSM. The same people who rolled their eyes at every clickbait headline blaring "Watch as Jon Stewart DESTROYS" this or that Republican now cheer as Trump rails against the "Failing New York Times" or "Very Fake News." It doesn't matter that Trump's arguments are as bogus, selective, or disingenuous as Stewart's. What matters is to cheer the "butt hurt" of Chuck Todd or Jim Acosta or some other enemy.
Delegitimizing all conservatives and the president of the United States if he's Republican is still cool, right? https://t.co/8zx0RKZ8RG— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 16, 2017
Sean Hannity has taken to calling Chuck Todd a leader of something called "the alt-left," a thing that is not a thing except in Hannity's studio. (The "alt" in "alt-right" refers to a desire to replace the traditional Right with a new tribalist-nationalist Right. What "Left" is Chuck Todd trying to replace? This is weak-tea Alinskyite distraction.)
I'm reminded of that old saying, "Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself defending Chuck Todd."
Now, that's not entirely fair since I've always liked Todd, despite our fairly frequent disagreements. But you know what I mean. And I also agree with Mollie that the mainstream media has a lot to answer for when it comes to how they've treated conservatives and Republican presidents. I've written literally tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of words on this very point. And while I think Mollie is being unfair to Chuck here, I also think she misses the point.
When Donald Trump says any — and I mean any — negative coverage of him is fake, he's making a very, very different claim than that of traditional bias. He is saying that news stories — with multiple sources from his administration, sometimes on the record — are simply fabricated. And just because the self-loving press idiotically takes the bait every time, handing him the mallet to bludgeon them with, doesn't change the fact that the president of the United States is not only wrong, he's lying. Yes, the New York Times gets stories wrong (News flash!), but it is not a work of fiction.
Whether he understands what he's doing or not, Trump's goal is to delegitimize any critical voices.
The argument one often hears from anti-anti-Trump conservatives is that they're just holding the mainstream media accountable. Fine. Do that. But if you don't show much interest in holding a president — who is the leader of the Republican party and maybe the conservative movement — accountable, then you've become an accomplice to the hero in a MacGuffinized presidency. One can see this most clearly when you hear radio- and TV-show hosts dismiss an argument by noting it comes from some alleged "Trump hater." It's the exact same tactic liberals used against those of us who criticized Bill Clinton. My animosity for Bill Clinton didn't make him play football-coach-and-the-cheerleader with an intern. Likewise, my alleged feelings about Trump don't make me wrong when I point out he's lying when he says he won in a historic landslide or when he insists that his administration has been humming like a well-oiled machine.
Whether he understands what he's doing or not, Trump's goal is to delegitimize any critical voices. I think he's motivated more by narcissism than by some evil-genius scheme, but it doesn't really matter. What does matter is truth. We are entering a phase where everything is measured not by veracity, but by feeling: If certain facts make us feel like "our side" is losing, then those facts aren't real. If certain fictions make the other side feel bad, then they are facts. Again, Trump didn't create this sorry dynamic, but he is accelerating it at blistering speed. I'm less concerned about "fake news" than I am by fake opinions — by which I mean the widespread tendency to score political arguments based upon how much applause they will get from your team.
Reading Kevin Williamson's terrific essay on President's Day, I'm of a mind to think the presidency has always been MacGuffinized. But just because a problem has a long pedigree doesn't mean the problem can't get worse. I know I use this line from Orwell too much (and I'm eager to hear suggestions for substitutes), but it captures the dynamic of the moment so well: "A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks." Collectively, we're all getting drunk on our feelings and then failing all the more completely for it.
Beinart's Gotcha
And that reminds me, Peter Beinart, my old sparring partner, has attempted to take National Review to the woodshed. Let me say upfront that he makes a defensible general point about anti-anti-Trumpism (a phrase I've been using for two years). It is a safe harbor for a lot of conservatives who don't want to be too critical of a newly elected president who is not only popular with their readership but who is also in the infancy of his presidency and has promised an agenda they would very much like to see enacted.
I was anti-Trump throughout the primaries and in a different, but still substantial way, through the election. After Trump won, I declared myself no longer a member of "Never Trump" for the simple reason that it was a meaningless term after he won. I could be "Never New England Patriots" throughout the season and the playoffs, but once they won the Super Bowl, it would be silly to say we must take back the ring. I took a wait-and-see position because, it seemed to me, that was the only mature, patriotic, and responsible position to take. And that's still my position (though wait-and-see doesn't mean "stop telling the truth," which is why I've both praised and criticized him). Some of my colleagues at NR are more enthusiastic about Trump, some less. But for the most part, as an editorial matter, that's remained our position. Also, some conservatives I know — at NR and elsewhere — have taken the view that the Trump presidency will end badly but there's no good reason to freak out now when Trump hasn't yet earned the freak out, especially if that means we will have lost credibility when we may need it down the road.
The problem with Peter's critique is that he's cherry-picking various columnists to construct a narrative that doesn't hold up.
The problem with Peter's critique is that he's cherry-picking various columnists to construct a narrative that doesn't hold up. He doesn't point to any NR editorials, and his examples come from stand-alone columns written by writers — some of whom don't work for the magazine — who have the freedom to say what they want. If guest writer X writes that Trump is a God-King, that doesn't mean that National Review writer Y has changed his position on anything. Moreover, Peter makes no effort to acknowledge that much of the "anti-anti-Trump" media criticism is really quite valid. Saying the election of Donald Trump is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor is ass-achingly stupid. Pointing that out may be helpful to Donald Trump, but that doesn't make it wrong.
Lastly, the fact that National Review runs a variety of pieces reflecting different points of view on the right is not quite the damning charge Peter seems to think it is. Beinart was the editor of The New Republic for quite a long time and I know he knows that that magazine (back when it was good) often had internal disagreements that make those at NR today seem like a fight over what kind of scones to serve at a tea party. I have disagreements with some of my colleagues (last week's "news"letter was mostly dedicated to a pretty serious one with my boss), but that strikes me as a sign of National Review's intellectual health. What Peter and a great many of his peers in the liberal press need to understand better is that a failure to agree with them on the nature of the moment isn't necessarily evidence of hypocrisy; it's evidence that we are conservatives who are inclined to take our own counsel. That this should shock anyone is a mystery to me.
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Canine Update: The beasts are doing well, but we've gotten ourselves into a bit of a pickle. One of my wife's favorite things to do is to feed dogs ice cream. If she could find a way to monetize the practice, she'd probably go pro. So, for a while at night, after dinner and the evening constitutional, she would give each canine a scoop of vanilla in a little dish. Pippa wisely prefers to make the experience last, licking her portion methodically. Zoë follows in the footsteps of Cooper (seen here in one of the greatest YouTube videos of all time), devouring the ice cream as quickly as possible. Once it's gone, she seems to immediately forget that she was ever given any ice cream and looks at Pippa the way a 400-pound prison inmate looks at a white-collar criminal with a pop tart.
But that's not the problem. The dogs now consider the ice cream to be an entitlement. And when we don't have ice cream, they follow Jessica around the house barking and howling as if she has the power to make it materialize (which, after all, she does in their little canine brains). We've tried to put them on a twelve-step program, but they have no interest in earning daily chips for their ice-cream sobriety and since they believe that their higher power is an ice-cream dispenser they remain baffled.
Thanks to the YPU: On Monday night, I debated at the Yale Political Union. It was my second time and it confirmed for me that I had not dreamed how weird the first time was. Still, they were a very impressive bunch of kids for the most part. The proposition to be debated was that the "Elites should rule" — a topic I didn't choose and wasn't particularly interested in defending the way I was expected to.
I began by telling them that debating whether the elites should rule could be rephrased as "Should Yale students continue to get their monies' worth from their tuitions." I was more than a little dismayed by how many of them have so little use for democracy, the Constitution, or federalism and I was more than a bit shocked to hear two members of the Conservative party talk about the need to switch to either an unelected Catholic aristocracy or the Confucian model of the civil service. But, hey, youth.
Afterwards, the Party of the Right took me out to The Owl for liquor and cigars and that was truly a grand time. Thanks again to everyone.
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U.S. House derivatives legislation designed to roll back some Dodd-Frank Act requirements won't gain passage because Senate Democrats will resist reopening the 2010 regulatory law, Representative Jim Himes said today.
"If I were betting, I would say none of these bills will become law," Himes, a Connecticut Democrat, said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington. "I don't think there's a lot of appetite in the Senate to get into which of these bills make sense and how are they balanced."
Himes, who was a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker before being elected to Congress in 2008, sponsored a bill that would alter a requirement that banks with access to deposit insurance and discount borrowing move some derivatives trades to affiliates that are separately capitalized.
While his bill and six others that have been approved by the House Agriculture Committee could move on the House floor, they would be unable to win passage in the Senate, Himes said.
"It's still a morality play between those who believe Dodd-Frank should be repealed in its entirety and those who believe it's the received word of God and any attempt to alter it is obviously being a shill for the industry," Himes said. "There's not much room between those poles right now."
The measures would affect derivatives units at banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc.
Some House lawmakers are working to undo Dodd-Frank provisions even as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other regulators are trying to complete the overhaul. The House moves have been assailed by Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who criticized JPMorgan over a derivatives bet by London-based traders that cost the bank more than $6.2 billion in losses last year.
Levin sent a letter to the CFTC on April 23 urging the regulator to apply its derivatives rules to London and other overseas offices of U.S. financial firms.
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Two more pieces of the fireball that exploded over the Bay Area in mid-October have been found, bringing the total of meteorite fragments found to four — all in Novato.
"This rock has been floating around space relatively unchanged for a little over four and a half billion years, and it just happened to land in our backyard a few weeks ago," said Jason Utas, a University of California at Berkeley geology student who made the third find. "It's pretty darn cool."
Utas and Robert Verish, an Escondido-based meteorite hunter, each found a meteorite, both measuring about 2 inches, on Oct. 27. The first find was by Lisa Webber on Oct. 20, at her home on St. Francis Avenue in Novato's Pleasant Valley neighborhood. Two days later, meteorite hunter Brien Cook found another space rock two miles away.
"The second one (Cook's find) was found two miles southeast of the Webbers' house," Verish said. "Then pretty much north by two miles of that find is the other two." Like the first two, the space rocks are termed ordinary chondrite, the most common type of meteorite found.
The first and second finds have been confirmed as chondrites by Alan Rubin, a researcher at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics who is an expert on such identification. The third and fourth space rocks are chips off the old meteor, so to speak.
Meteors hurtle toward the Earth at 36,000 mph, and when they hit the Earth's atmosphere they slow down. Just as when brake shoes come into contact with a tire, there's friction, and the heat from the friction chars the outside of the rock. This causes what's known as a fusion crust — the clear mark of a space rock.
The minute Utas saw his meteorite up close, he knew he had a strike.
"I found it in the middle of the road," said Utas, 22, who has hunted meteorites since the age of 8. "I've walked around 100 miles in the last two weeks" looking for a fragment from the Oct. 17 meteor shower.
"I saw it while driving. I couldn't tell if it was a meteorite. It was one of those moments when you don't know if it's worth stopping."
But stop he did. "I knew it was one (meteorite) as soon as I saw it. I called my dad right away, then my mom and then my girlfriend," Utas said. Utas and his father, who is also a meteorite hound, have a website devoted to their collection, Falls and Finds: http://www.fallsandfinds.com/.
"The more pieces we can recover, the better picture we will have of what this asteroid was all about," said Peter Jenniskens, the NASA-affiliated meteor hunter at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, who is coordinating the hunt. "Each rock comes from a different spot on the asteroid, and together they make up the pieces of the puzzle."
A diagram of where the meteorites are believed to have fallen can be found on Jenniskens' blog at http://cams.seti.org/. There is also a site tracking Novato meteorite finds at http://asima.seti.org/n/. Those who think they may have found a meteorite should send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Verish encouraged amateur meteorite hunters to look in their backyards, especially those in Sonoma County, Yountville and St. Helena.
"Some insurance adjuster may be writing up a report of broken glass without realizing it's not vandalism — unless you want to call it cosmic vandalism," Verish said.
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Imation ships wirelessly-connected hard drive
USB 2.0 wireless
Imation has announced its external hard drive that connects by wireless USB to PCs and Macs is now shipping.
The Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive comes in a 3.5in form-factor and holds up to 1.5TB of data. It is based on Imation's Apollo external hard drive platform fitted with a USB wireless facility that talks on a one-to-one basis to a receiver that plugs into a desktop or notebook PC or Mac's USB port.
The link operates at USB 2.0 level but does so relatively slowly, running at 15MB/s. An Apple wireless-connected Time Capsule transfers data at a comparable speed, although reviewers have found speed drops off with distance.
Time Capsule uses 802.11n Wi-Fi not Wireless USB. It is a router as well and is often used as a networked device to share files between several hosts, whereas the Pro WX is definitely not networked, being used on a one to one basis with its host.
Pro WX comes with Memeo Instant Backup software which, for Windows hosts but not Mac ones - unless it runs in a virtual Windows machine - can automatically backup users' data and synch it. Imation doesn't say the basic product works with Apple's Time Machine backup facility, but there's no reason to suppose it won't.
The Windows need to logically disconnect USB-connected external drives before physically disconnecting them is avoided because the Pro WX receiver is plugged into the host's USB socket and the Pro WX drive itself. When the device comes within the 30ft range of the receiver it is automatically detected and backup starts.
Although the product dispenses with the USB data cable, it still needs its own power cable - Imation's USB wireless not being able, like USB wire, to deliver power to an external device.
The 1.5TB Pro WX price is $499, which looks a little pricey for Mac users as they can get a wirelessly-connected 2TB Time Capsule for $499. ®


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Cave and Karst Management
Policy and Program Objectives
NPS management policies relating to cave and karst management are as follows.
22.214.171.124 Karst
The Service will manage karst terrain to maintain the inherent integrity of its water quality, spring flow, drainage patterns, and caves. Karst processes (the processes by which water dissolves soluble rock such as limestone) create areas typified by sinkholes, underground streams, caves, and springs.
Local and regional hydrological systems resulting from karst processes can be directly influenced by surface land use practices. If existing or proposed developments do or will significantly alter or adversely impact karst processes, these impacts will be mitigated. Where practicable, these developments will be placed where they will not have an effect on the karst system.
22.214.171.124 Caves
As used here, the term "caves" includes karst (such as limestone and gypsum caves) and non-karst caves (such as lava tubes, littoral caves, and talus caves). The Service will manage caves in accordance with approved cave management plans to perpetuate the natural systems associated with the caves, such as karst and other drainage patterns, air flows, mineral deposition, and plant and animal communities. Wilderness, and cultural resources and values will also be protected.
No developments or uses, including those that allow for general public entry, such as pathways, lighting, and elevator shafts, will be allowed in, above, or adjacent to caves until it can be demonstrated that they will not unacceptably impact natural cave conditions, including sub-surface water movements. Developments already in place above caves will be removed if they are impairing or threatening to impair natural conditions or resources.
Parks will strive to close caves or portions of caves to public use, or to control such use, when such actions are required for the protection of cave resources or for human safety. Some caves or portions of caves may be managed exclusively for research, with access limited to permitted research personnel. All recreational use of undeveloped caves will be governed by a permit system. "Significant" caves will be identified using the criteria established in the 43 CFR Part 37 regulations for the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988 (FCRPA). As further established by the FCRPA, specific locations of significant cave entrances may be kept confidential and exempted from FOIA requests.
126.96.36.199 Caves [in wilderness]
All cave passages located totally within the surface wilderness boundary will be managed as wilderness. Caves that have entrances within wilderness but contain passages that may extend outside the surface wilderness boundary will be managed as wilderness. Caves that may have multiple entrances located both within and exterior to the surface wilderness boundary will be managed consistent with the surface boundary; those portions of the cave within the wilderness boundary will be managed as wilderness.
Program Objectives
A park's cave management program should include:
- protection of natural processes in cave ecosystems and karst landscapes;
- scientific studies and research in or about cave and karst resources and systems, to increase the park's scientific knowledge and broaden the understanding of its cave resources and karst processes;
- detailed cartographic survey of caves and cave systems and a detailed inventory of resources within cave systems;
- provision for educational and recreational opportunities for a broad spectrum of park visitors to safely visit, study, and enjoy caves at a variety of levels of interest and abilities;
- establishment of regulations, guidelines, and/or permit stipulations that will ensure maximum conservation of cave resources and karst processes;
- direction for cave restoration activities that remove unnatural materials or restore otherwise impacted areas;
- establishment of standard operating procedures in the maintenance and upkeep of developed cave passages;
- monitoring of natural environmental conditions and visitor use and impact;
- protection of related cultural and biological resources; and
- methods for sustainable use of cave resources.


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I had a fairly negative reaction to Dave Itzkoff's first science fiction column at the New York Times, but I'm more impressed by his second, particularly because he praises Christopher Rowe's marvelous story "The Voluntary State" and Benjamin Rosenbaum's fine story "Embracing-the-New". Such praise shows taste and thoughtfulness. I also thought Itzkoff's ideas about nostalgia within science fiction are astute, though I am far more wary of nostalgia than he.
I have one major concern with the column, however, and that is Itzkoff's bizarre decision to undermine his credibility by quoting an "online critic". Doesn't he realize he's writing for one of the great newspapers of the world? Why does he stoop to giving credibility to some yahoo with a blog? Itzkoff is a good and clearly intelligent writer, but such a tremendous lapse of judgment within an otherwise interesting column may be a sign not simply of an undigested inner child, but of impending psychosis.


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There are 2 programs designed to address emotional needs of patients and family members within the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University. These programs are unique in offering psychosocial support and counseling service on site in the Hematology/Oncology clinic and within Wake Forest Baptist Health. This feature allows for the delivery of counseling services to patients in conjunction with their medical care.
The mission of the Cancer Patient Support Program is:
To provide social support for cancer survivors and family members and to enhance quality of life during the diagnosis, treatment and survivorship process.
The CPSP has 8 staff members, several graduate student counselors and approximately 30 core volunteers who provide a variety of services in the clinic and hospital each week. Services delivered by our professional staff include individual and family counseling, inpatient consultation, appearance consultation, support groups, breast cancer risk assessment and education and training for nursing staff within the Medical Center.
Volunteers are active in hospital visitation, providing hospitality and refreshments in the Hematology and Oncology and Radiation Oncology clinics. These core volunteers are supported by another group of over 100 community volunteers who are active in an annual Winterlark fund raiser, the annual Survivor's Day Celebration, and numerous survivor celebration activities throughout the year.
Services are offered in the Hematology and Oncology clinic where the CPSP maintains a patient resource room, a hospitality waiting area, counseling rooms and an administrative office. Volunteers serve patients in these areas as well as in the chemotherapy treatment area. The CPSP also maintains a support waiting room in the radiation oncology treatment area.
All services are offered without charge and are funded by an annual fund raiser, an endowment fund, donations, grants, and medical center contributions.
The Psychosocial Oncology Program began as the Psychological Services arm of the Cancer Center in 1988, with the purpose of providing psychological assessment and counseling for patients and family members suffering from more intense psychological distress. Patients often need help with:
Additional services include general supportive counseling, specific behavioral procedures, including relaxation training, and stress management. This Program provides psychological screening, quality of life assessment and counseling services for all bone marrow transplant patients prior to transplantation and for surgical oncology patients undergoing Cytoreductive surgery + Hyperthermic chemotherapy.
The Psychosocial Oncology Program has developed a research/evaluation and teaching component within the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The program is funded through fee for service activity and grants.
The Cancer Patient Support and Psychosocial Oncology Programs have been designed to meet a wide range of patient needs. Most cancer patients and their families do not need intensive psychological care but rather support service provided through our volunteers and professional counselors.
We are able to accommodate patients with more disruptive symptoms as well as those proceeding through the more common "normal distress" during the diagnosis, treatment and survivorship process. In our own studies conducted in the outpatient clinic, we have seen that the new diagnosis is extremely distressing and yet can be modified by an orientation program which is made available for all new patients.
These 2 programs represent unique offerings within the administrative structure of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and Section of Hematology and Oncology. While services are available in the hospital including Psychiatry, Social Work, Pastoral Care and others, accessibility often is a problem for cancer patients. Since both the CPSP and POP are accessible within the Hematology and Oncology clinic and the inpatient setting, they are highly visible, well utilized, and very well received.
The integration of psychosocial care within the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest Baptist Health is a special feature that contributes to the well being of cancer survivors and their families.
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Women's Studies
Lynn Weber, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976
Laura Woliver, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1986
Associate Director
Associate Professor
Wanda A. Hendricks, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1990
Graduate Director
DeAnne Messias, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1997
Assistant Professors
Deborah Parra-Medina, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University, 1998
Ann Ramsdell, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina, 1996
Ingrid Reneau, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1999
Suzanne Swan, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
The Women's Studies Program at the University of South Carolina promotes understanding of the diverse array of women's experiences through a complete program of teaching, research, and service to the University, the local community, the state, and the nation. Through its research mission, women's studies reconceptualizes knowledge, creates new knowledge, and reinterprets existing knowledge through the lens of gender and the prism of diversity. Its teaching mission is to share this knowledge with students so they learn to think critically, to communicate effectively, to solve problems, and to interpret human experience. Emerging from an activist tradition, women's studies serves university, local, state, and national communities by acting as a resource and guide for issues related to women and gender. Our research, teaching, and service missions interweave as we create, share, and apply the knowledge, skills, and values that promote the full participation of women in society.
The Certificate of Graduate Study in Women's Studies is open to the graduate student seeking an interdisciplinary program in women's studies in addition to the master's or doctoral degree that the student is pursuing in a traditional discipline. The program is also intended for postbaccalaureate working professionals such as psychologists, social workers, nurses, librarians, and teachers who wish to obtain information and skills in women's studies to aid them in their professions.
Applicants will need to submit a completed application together with official transcripts, GRE or Miller Analogies Test scores, two letters of recommendation, and a personal statement. Minimum entrance requirements will be the same as those for The Graduate School. Applicants with GRE scores above 1050 (verbal and analytical)--or a comparable score under the new grading scale for the analytical section--or Miller Analogies Test scores above 50 will have the best opportunity of being awarded a graduate assistantship. For more information, contact the Women's Studies Program.
The Certificate of Graduate Study in Women's Studies is interdisciplinary and requires a total of 18 graduate credits within a six-year period in prescribed and elective courses. All students must take the two core courses: WOST 701 and 702. Each student must take at least 9 credits in elective courses chosen from an approved list to meet the student's own interests. A final required seminar, WOST 797, serves as a capstone experience to help integrate the elective courses with the material learned in the introductory core. Courses taken as part of another graduate degree program may, if appropriate, be applied also to the certificate program. The Certificate of Graduate Study in Women's Studies is awarded upon completion of the student's approved program of courses.
For more information, contact the Women's Studies graduate director at 803-777-4007.
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EDFN 845 Seminar in Foundations of Education
EDLP 739 Understanding Sexual Diversity on Campus
EDLP 822 Women, Curriculum, and Educational Leadership
ENGL 757 20th Century African American Literature
HPRE 621 Maternal-Child Health Education
LAW 781 Diversity and the Law
NURS 739 Conceptual Base for Women's Health Nursing
NURS 768 Women's Health Care
NURS 776 Advanced Health Care for Women
SPAN 769 Hispanic Women Writers
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Afghan officials said Wednesday at least 12 policemen were killed or wounded in two separate Taliban attacks on checkpoints.
Authorities said that in the first incident southwest of Kabul, six policemen were killed in an early morning gunfight.
Hours later, at least six policemen were killed or wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in central Ghazni province. Clashes erupted between insurgents and police after the bombing.
In other violence, two NATO soldiers were killed Wednesday in two separate insurgent attacks in the country's south and east.
The Taliban has stepped up its attacks on government officials and Afghan and international troops in recent months.


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If your cat snubs a new food or toy, consider donating the unwanted items to a local shelter or animal rescue group. Call in advance to confirm that such donations are accepted.read more
In mythology and folklore, superstitions link cats to witches and bad luck on Halloween, but it's actually our feline friends who ought to be scaredy-cats on the fall holiday. That's because many of its accoutrements, such as trick-or-treating, candlelit jack-o'-lanterns and candy in foil wrappers carry risks for our felines. Just the sound of kids screaming "Boo!" could give your cat nightmares for weeks.
There is good news for black-cat owners in particular, though, since the ASPCA hasn't seen any data to confirm that such felines are at high risk on Halloween for worse fates, like catnapping or use in black magic rituals. Some shelters in the past refused to adopt out black cats as Oct. 31 approached. "The data does not support the notion that black cats are at terrible risk at Halloween," says Gail Buchwald, senior vice president of ASPCA Community Outreach in New York City. Nevertheless, she adds, "Cats should be kept out of harm's way in the hubbub of this holiday season."
Problems for Cats on Halloween
Here are some of the real hazards cats can face during Halloween and how you can prevent any harm from coming to your kitty.
Safe Cat Halloween Celebrations
There are ways to prepare your feline friend for the big night of goblins and ghouls. Exercise is an important stress reducer. Playing with your pet for a bit earlier on Halloween night might therefore be the calm inducer your pet needs to brave the hullabaloo. "It's not something that would appeal to them at a time of stress, so I wouldn't advise it during the hubbub," Buchwald says. "But something that involves high energy on the morning of the hubbub would be great. The idea is that a tired cat is more likely to be a calm cat."
In addition to commercial cat toys, like wands or lasers to chase, there are some fun homemade games you can concoct to play with your cat. Peterson says that many cats enjoy batting around a pingpong ball in an empty bathtub. She also says a paper shopping bag can work wonders. Just take off the handles, cut a hole in the bottom and stick a wand through the hole to entice your cat into the bag. Many cats, Peterson says, also like to pounce on newspaper that you spread on the floor.
"On Halloween, it's a great time to play with your kitty and make sure you spend some quality time together," Peterson says. "Kids get so excited about trick or treating and candy, or a party, that they sometimes forget that kitty depends on them every day for love and attention." She adds, "It's a nice time to do something fun or even something quiet, like sit down and pet your cat. It might calm you down, too."
Elizabeth Wasserman, a Washington, D.C., area-based freelancer, has been writing about pets, among other topics, for more than 15 years. Her love of dogs, in particular, was handed down through the generations from her great-grandfather, Eric Knight, who wrote the book Lassie Come Home in the 1930s.
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Serena Mathews says: My Cats have loved the ideas that you have suggested. Kitty hides in the brown bag and scares everyone that walkes by. The only Problem with Kitty is that it's very hard to wrap Christmas presents when he lays on the wraping paper! :)
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ULI presents scenarios to the public that complement the setting of the space next to the new culinary institute and near Niagara Falls State Park
The Urban Land Institute advisory panel presented a summary Friday of its conclusions and recommendations after a week-long analysis of potential reuses of the former Rainbow Centre Shopping Mall in downtown Niagara Falls. A total of 200,000 square feet of reuse-ready space on two levels remain in the building with the new $26 million Niagara Falls Culinary Institute occupying the balance of the former mall and supported by a recently rehabilitated 1,600-space parking structure.
"Today's event is a continuation of Governor Cuomo's commitment to strengthening and revitalizing Niagara Falls and the entire Western New York region," said Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy. "The governor brought in the renowned Urban Land Institute to give us the best plan for reusing the Rainbow Centre Mall so we can repurpose the space for new uses that best fit the needs of the City of Niagara Falls and its residents. Now that the plan has been completed, we can more easily attract private investment helping to bring in new businesses, create jobs and turn the Rainbow Centre Mall into a new and exciting component (in) the city."
The ULI panelists - composed of eight experts from across the nation, all qualified professionals in design, real estate and government - volunteered their time this week, staying in Niagara Falls to study the property and its context. After a reception with community stakeholders on Monday, they interviewed 70 key public and private officials and community leaders on Tuesday to gain their unique insights into the region, the market and the mall property itself. The ULI panelists spent the remainder of the week developing their conclusions.
"We offered three workable design concepts for the former Rainbow Centre Mall site with recommendations for a variety of uses that meet both resident and visitor market demands," said panel Chair Glenda Hood, president of Hood Partners LLC, and the former mayor of Orlando, Fla. "We also suggest strategies to realize the potential for the surrounding area and to recognize that the keys to success are collaboration and partnerships."
The panel's conclusions included recommendations under three major themes: market-based use scenarios; design-based strategies addressing the building itself; and implementation methods. The panel developed a series of possible re-use scenarios based upon what recent market assessments suggest that is in demand downtown. Many of these scenarios directly complement the setting of the space next to the culinary institute and near Niagara Falls State Park. The panel also made a series of specific design recommendations to address the building's monolithic scale; turning its uses "inside-out" to create more active street-level activities; and dealing with "back-of-house" services such as waste management and deliveries. In terms of implementation, the panel offered insights on some of the former mall's surrounding uses and areas, linkages to the state park, and methods to procure private developers for adaptive reuse efforts.
USA Niagara Development Corp., in cooperation with the City of Niagara Falls, and with the assistance of National Grid and the ULI Foundation, sponsored the effort. Similar efforts by ULI have been successfully conducted across the country, most recently in Western New York at the former Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital and the former Buffalo Psychiatric Center (now known as the Richardson-Olmsted Complex) in Buffalo.
"This is an exciting opportunity for the Niagara Falls community and for Western New York," said Dennis Elsenbeck, regional executive for National Grid. "The advisory panel's insights will help us realize the full economic development potential of this important regional asset."
"The Urban Land Institute is recognized as one of the world's most respected sources of objective information on urban planning, growth and development so to get its recommendations for the remaining space in the former Rainbow Centre Mall brings confidence to the private investors and developers who may be interested in the property," said City of Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster. "Having ULI in town has helped us tremendously to understand how best to adapt and reuse this existing real estate and build off the city's existing momentum. I thank Governor Cuomo and USAN for their commitment to this project."
Through a Development Agreement with the City of Niagara Falls, USA Niagara Development Corp. is exclusively charged with planning and soliciting the reuse/redevelopment of the remaining city-owned space in the building.
"We're thankful to the panel of distinguished experts and ULI staff who dedicated so much knowledge and energy to this assignment and we look forward to advancing their efforts by working to leverage additional significant development and investment in the former Rainbow Centre," said USA Niagara Development Corp. President Christopher Schoepflin.
In September, the southern portion of the former mall fronting on Old Falls Street re-opened as the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, housing Niagara County Community College's hospitality, culinary and tourism programs, along with a number of new food-and-beverage and retail establishments.
However, the property is not without its challenges that will complicate future reuse. For example, the design of the structure is somewhat unconventional; the former shopping mall space is incorporated into the structural design of the City parking ramp. Also, in many locations along its street faces, the ground floor elevations of the building do not match the adjoining sidewalk elevations. Additionally, the former mall had been designed as a traditional inwardly oriented shopping mall and its systems/services support this orientation, thus requiring refinements to facilitate uses that would activate its adjoining street faces.
Founded in 1936, ULI is composed of more than 38,000 members, representing the entire spectrum of the land use and development disciplines, including architects, planners, real estate brokers, builders, attorneys, and engineers. It has long been recognized as one of the world's most respected and most reliable sources of objective information on urban planning, growth and real estate development. As part of its mission, the institute maintains an advisory services department for the purpose of benefiting the general public through improved planning and utilization of urban land.
USAN, a subsidiary of Empire State Development Corp., is solely dedicated to the support and promotion of economic development initiatives in Niagara Falls by leveraging private investment and encouraging growth and renewal of the tourism industry in the City of Niagara Falls.
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Our wilderness is under an unprecedented attack from Trump and anti-conservationists in Congress. Help us fight back.
Its not every day that one can encounter a nocturnal, semi-aquatic beaver. Which is why an encounter with a baby beaver is even more remarkable.
This op-ed, by The Wilderness Society's Arizona state director Mike Quigley and Veterans Writing Project founder Ron Capps, is cross-posted from Stars & Stripes.
On June 30, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed America's first land protection law. The Yosemite Grant protected areas in Yosemite Valley "for public use, resort, and recreation."
GO Week 2014 drew to a close with a ceremony on Capitol Hill honoring three conservation champions who are preparing to retire from Congress with the Great Outdoors Week Lifetime Achievement Award.
During GO Week (June 23-26), The Wilderness Society partnered with other conservation groups to remind the nation's leaders how much Americans care about the great outdoors.
The one year anniversary of the unveiling of America's historic Climate Action Plan is upon us. Measuring how far we have come in meeting the goals outlined in the plan and the work yet to be done is as important as the plan itself.
Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful geyser can now be viewed online via a high-definition (HD) streaming webcam.
According to the report, which was published by a coalition of conservation, outdoor recreation and scientific groups, nearly 47.5 million peop
From June 25th to 28th, 2014, Bryce Canyon National Park will celebrate its 14th Annual Astronomy Festival.
This area, stretching from just north of Mt. Rainier to the Canadian border, is anchored by a network of ten wilderness areas encompassing more than 2.5 million acres of the most pristine wild lands in the state.
Show the Trump administration Americans don't support plans to destroy this epic wildland.


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The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Knoxville, TN was looking for ways to improve the acoustical quality in their 1950's era sanctuary. With help by Winco's Candace Sharpe, Nell Campbell, AIA of Bullock Smith & Partners recommended that they replace the plush carpet that ran down the center aisle of the nave, chancel, and altar areas with Stonepeak's Raja Kund porcelain tile.
They chose to install the tile in a loose slate pattern to not only improve the choral acoustics for their growing music program, but also provide a safer walking surface for the congregation, lower the long-term maintenance costs, and enhance the blue veining in the marble altar. The church is very happy with the look and sound of their worship space!


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An opportunity of a lifetime struck Vintage Tub interns this week when the General Manager, Allan Dick, Jr., invited us to attend the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Conference and Expo at the Hilton in New York City. We woke up at 5 am on March 18th like little kids on Christmas morning to start our travel into the city for a full day of fun.
Defining Fun:
- Listening to presentations and panel discussions that cover literally all aspects of search engine-related promotion.
- Choosing between 16 different sessions all in one day, ranging from Introduction to Search Engine Marketing, Universal Search to Optimization, Analytics and Paid Search.
- Having the sessions presented by the industry's top Search experts and representatives of the Search Engines themselves, just to name a few:
- Google, Acronym Media, Microsoft, bigmouthmedia, Hitwise, IBM, Medio, and comScore.
- Learning the most innovative and current technology that even advanced search marketers were not unaware of until this week.
- Meeting and networking with people of similar interests in e-commerce.
- Visiting the 100's of expo booths to stock up on pens and sticky notes.
- Searching booths for better gifts like Steak Media's purple cow, Acronym Media's hand sanitizer for "hands-on search" and delicious baked cookies from Omniture.
At 6 pm, when the conference sessions were complete, our day was far from finished. Leaving the Hilton, we relocated to the Manhattan Penthouse where our manager threw a networking dinner party with over 120 guests from the conference and industry. As if the day couldn't get better, I was able to speak one on one with reps from SEMPO, 360i, ESPN, Microsoft, Google and many more, which deserves greater depth in a later post. With all this, a career experience of a life time was created.
Thank you to everyone (especially Allan, Mike, and Regina) who made this day possible for us. One for the books.


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It's official, the Android 2.2 update for the HTC Desire will be rolling out to handsets in Europe starting this weekend. We were hoping that HTC's Android 2.2 update for the HTC Desire would start rolling out yesterday, but it looks like Mark Moons jumped the gun just a little. The Froyo update for the HTC Desire will enable 720p video recording, support iTunes sync functionality, and add the application sharing widget and the caller ID features found on the recently released HTC Wildfire.
The OTA update will start pinging unlocked HTC Desire handsets this weekend. Currently, the Android 2.2 update is slated only for the unlocked version of the HTC Desire. Operator specific versions of the Desire will most likely be getting the Froyo update within the next few weeks, when final testing is completed.Show Press Release
HTC Desire users will be notified that the over-the-air update is available to download when their phone automatically checks for software updates. The update won't delete any of the phone's content. However, due to the size of the update, we would advise using a WiFi connection to download it wherever possible to avoid additional data charges.
This update will initially roll out to unlocked HTC Desire handsets. Operator specific versions of the update are undergoing testing and we expect to make them available in several weeks' time.


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a term used to define a person who is the most adorable thing on the planet. this person is is obsessed with pokemon, "rawrs" frequently, and says "whatnot" at the end of sentances. is known to abuse their authority power. also known as a seanbear, seanface, seanpants, and other objects attached to the prefix of "sean"
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If ibuprofen sales are up in the EU this year, it might have something to do with the nightmare known as the EU cookie law.
For major companies operating in affected countries, the solution to the problem has been, well, to find a solution to the problem. And for good reason: with the possibility of enforcement action, few businesses can afford not to address the law.
But apparently the EU itself can't be bothered with complying with its own rules.
As reported by ZDNet's Zack Whittaker, websites for EU institutions like the European Parliament and European Commission are still using cookies, but they're not in compliance.
Whittaker writes:
On all European Union institution websites, you will be lucky to find a single page that asks the visitor for permission to set cookies. But they're using them all the same.
Although there's an argument to be made that (technically) these EU institutions may not be covered by the cookie law, that argument probably doesn't hold water. As Stewart Room of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP explained to ZDNet:
The EU is bound by the 2001 Data Protection Regulation (45/2011) — not to be confused with the draft Data Protection Regulation 2012 — and there are strong grounds to suspect that some parts of the EU's cookie use constitutes the processing of personal data.
Some agencies appear to be aware that the rules apply to them, and are surprised that they're not in compliance. "If there is proof of a part of the EU institutions not being transparent about cookies, please let us know, so we can work to address it," a spokesperson for the Digital Agenda Commissioner told Whittaker.
The irony here is laughable, but also sad. Legitimate businesses wanting to stay on the right side of the law have spent significant amounts of time and money dealing with the EU cookie law, which isn't the first headache-inducing law the EU has implemented and almost certainly won't be the last.
But if the EU itself won't abide by its own laws, some might eventually ask: should anybody?
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This is an absolutely farce.
We spent a fair amount of time and money in order to comply with it. In the UK, the primary ICO guideline which they revised 1 day before the deadline.
I quote "At present evidence demonstrates that general awareness of ... cookies is simply not high enough for websites to rely entirely ... on implied consent" (ICO, "guidance on the rules on use of cookies and similar technologies", version 2, Dec 2011).
It seems that 5 month was more than enough to increase the "general awareness", making the "explicit consent" not necessary.
In other countries, we do not even know what is happening. Germany has not expressed how they were thinking of implementing it yet... and they are not the only ones.
How about other websites who are administered by extra-EU owners? Are they going to have to change their websites as well in order to comply if they are addressing to EU customers?
A perfect example of a digital project failure on an European scale... and surely a bit too late to find out that it was a terrible mistake.
My favorite is www.europeanlawmonitor.org This is I believe part EU funded and is part of EU Direct as the local feed for Hampshire. See any pop-ups? Any warning on privacy policy or cookies? If you don't I think you should do your civic duty and report them to the ICO. If they get enough complaints they would have to investigate and what a story that would make.


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Augusto Giacometti (1877–1947) is regarded as a major exponent of Art Nouveau and Symbolism, but he also plays a pioneering role in the development of the international Abstract movement. Throughout his life, he dealt intensively with the theme of colour, in works that ranged between abstraction and representation. He was a free spirit, both stylistically and in the techniques he used to translate his idiosyncratic visual ideas into paintings.
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